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Wandora user has created a topic '''Adventure 3''' with a subject locator '''http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/adv550.z8'''. It addresses a playable Z machine application. User opens the topic with Tradition topic panel by double clicking the topic. Next Wandora user toggles the subject locator preview on by cliking the icon right to the subject locator field. Wandora opens up the subject locator preview, a playable Adventure 3, the 550 point version of Adventure aka Colossal Cave, by Dave Platt, from 1979, converted to C99 and compiled as Z-code with a modified vbccz compiler by Arthur O'Dwyer. | Wandora user has created a topic '''Adventure 3''' with a subject locator '''http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/adv550.z8'''. It addresses a playable Z machine application. User opens the topic with Tradition topic panel by double clicking the topic. Next Wandora user toggles the subject locator preview on by cliking the icon right to the subject locator field. Wandora opens up the subject locator preview, a playable Adventure 3, the 550 point version of Adventure aka Colossal Cave, by Dave Platt, from 1979, converted to C99 and compiled as Z-code with a modified vbccz compiler by Arthur O'Dwyer. | ||
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Wandora's Traditional topic panel views subject locator resources if the View subject locators option is enabled. The menu option is available at View > Traditional w ... > View subject locators. Also, right to the subject locator field is an icon button toggle to switch subject locator previews on and off. Wandora doesn't view subject locator resources by default.
When subject locator preview is enabled, Wandora checks if there is a valid subject locator URI and tries to figure out mimetype for the subject locator resource. Once the mimetype is resolved, Wandora chooses a viewer for the resource and initializes the viewer. Wandora supports
- Local resources that are addressed by a file URI.
- External resources addressed by an URL. Usually URL's protocol is http or https.
- Internal data URI resources where the data is encoded inside the URI itself.
Supported preview formats
Wandora selects a viewer for the subject locator resouce using resources mimetype. At the moment Wandora has a viewer for images, videos, web pages etc. Next table lists all viewers and supported formats (2015-11-13).
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audio/midi |
mid |
AudioMidi |
Midi audio player. The midi player is based on Java's midi system.
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audio/x-flac |
flac |
AudioFlac |
Flac audio player. Wandora's flac audio player uses Daniel Becker's Javamod player. The Javamod player is embedded in Wandora and requires no extra installations.
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audio/ogg |
ogg |
AudioOgg |
Ogg Vorbis audio player. Wandora's ogg audio player uses Daniel Becker's Javamod player.
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audio/x-sidtune |
sid |
AudioSid |
Sid tune audio player. See also The High Voltage SID Collection. Wandora's sid tune audio player uses Daniel Becker's Javamod player.
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audio/mod |
mod |
AudioMod |
Mod audio player. Wandora's mod audio player uses Daniel Becker's Javamod player. See also The Mod Archive.
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audio/x-wav |
wav |
AudioWav |
Basic audio sample player for wav and aiff files. Basic audio sample player uses Java's native audio libraries.
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audio/mpeg |
mp3 |
AudioMP3v2 |
Audio MP3 player. Wandora's mod audio player uses Daniel Becker's Javamod player. The Javamod player is embedded in Wandora and requires no additional installations.
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image/* |
gif |
Image |
Image viewer. Even though the viewer captures all image mimetypes, viewer supports only image types supported by Java.
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application/pdf |
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ApplicationPDF |
PDF viewer.
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text/rtf |
rtf |
TextRTF |
RTF viewer.
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text/html |
html |
TextHTML |
General web viewer uses JavaFX. If Java doesn't support JavaFX, the web viewer doesn't work.
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application/xml |
xml |
ApplicationXML |
General XML viewer. The XML is viewed as text.
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text/* |
txt |
Text |
General text viewer that captures all text type mimetypes and many text file formats.
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video/mp4 |
mp4 |
VideoMp4 |
Video player can view MP4 videos, for example. The video player requires JavaFX. Oracle's Java 8 includes JavaFX by default.
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application/x-zmachine |
z1 |
ApplicationZMachine |
Viewer runs interactive fiction files in Z machine format and the user can play the games. Viewer is based on Z-Machine Preservation Project (ZMPP) created by Wei-ju Wu. Wandora fork is avalable in GitHub as a separate project. See The Interactive Fiction Archive for playable games.
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Values in Handler column are Java classes in package org.wandora.application.gui.previews.formats.
Examples
Wandora user has created a topic Adventure 3 with a subject locator http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/adv550.z8. It addresses a playable Z machine application. User opens the topic with Tradition topic panel by double clicking the topic. Next Wandora user toggles the subject locator preview on by cliking the icon right to the subject locator field. Wandora opens up the subject locator preview, a playable Adventure 3, the 550 point version of Adventure aka Colossal Cave, by Dave Platt, from 1979, converted to C99 and compiled as Z-code with a modified vbccz compiler by Arthur O'Dwyer.
